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" One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights. "

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" The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. "

" A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams. "

" The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work. "

" The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation. "

" Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. "

" Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. "

" To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves. "

" We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise. "

" Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. "

" The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest. "

" In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs. "

" Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge. "

" Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. "

" In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish. "

" A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. "

" Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. "

" If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe. "

" Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy. "

" As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles. "

" Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses. "

" To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. "

" To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself. "

" If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. "

" Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention. "

" Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link. "

" There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul. "

" To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny. "

" We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him. "